Tri-Alogue #4

The subtle movement of a dancer’s arms invites three panels of film into one frame in this micro-symphony of sounds and images in which the changing light evokes the passing of times. Human and non-human, interior and exterior co-exist in this highly improvisational yet serendipitous portrait of a changing Seattle in late August under a fire-choked sun.

Co-authored by Caryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker and Reed O’Beirne on the same Bolex 16mm camera with a lens masked to subdivide the frame of the film roll into thirds. Since we shoot on the same roll of film, the editing (and therefore the choreography) is done in-camera. Featuring dance & choreography by Emily Durand, and a score by Rachael Cohen with Andrea Di Biase.

By presenting three filmmakers work simultaneously within a single 16mm frame, the Tri-Alogue series offers a complexity of perspective that undermines the omniscient cinematic gaze and evokes a deeper relational mystery.

Collaborating to subdivide a 16mm filmframe into thirds, the three filmmakers present their separately-shot-segments simultaneously within one spatial plane. From the interplay of these three points of view, emerges a cinematic conversation based on a horizontal compositional logic within the shared frame. This combined connotative-relationship between the subframes evokes a spectacle of fractured spatial and temporal perspective.